What happens if you change how you transfer child support while you get FTB Part A
If you change how you collect child support, it could impact your FTB Part A. It could also impact our ability to recover underpayments of child support.
How child support affects FTB Part A payment rates
The more child support you receive or are entitled to, the less FTB you may get. This is called the Maintenance Income Test.
What happens if we update your child support assessment while you get FTB Part A
If circumstances change for you or the other parent, we’ll update your child support assessment. This means your FTB payments may change too.
Family Tax Benefit Part A balancing and child support
If you get Family Tax Benefit (FTB) Part A and child support, we’ll check you got the right amount of FTB when we balance your payments.
Paying child support by Private Collect or self-management
Paying parents who use Private Collect or self management to make child support payments don’t need to tell us about these arrangements.
Paying child support by Child Support Collect
There are different ways you can make child support payments when you use Child Support Collect.
Paying child support by non-agency payments
Paying parents can make direct payments or third party transfers that fall outside of regular child support payments.
Limited child support agreements affect your family payments
We’ll make a notional assessment after we accept your agreement. The notional assessment is the child support that would apply if you didn’t have an agreement.
End a Limited child support agreement
You or the other parent can end a limited agreement.
Court order expiry for child maintenance payments
Child maintenance orders will end at a specified time, or when a particular event occurs.